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erous and promment effigy m Grant county, was the totem of that region . 

 If this is so, then we have an additional reason to believe that the so-called 

 elephant effigy was nothing more nor less than a buffalo, and represented 

 the totem of the region. We have this to contend with, however, — it 

 was maintained by Dr. J. W. Phene, that he discovered in Campbell cooHe, 

 three miles north of Prairie du Chien, the effigy of a camel, and that the 

 camel and elephant were associated in the mound- builders' art. The search 

 was in part for this camel effigy, and in part to ascertain wliether the theory 

 of game drives, dream gods, and clan totems, could be carried out by the 

 facts. The result was that the clan totem was ascertained and the theory 

 of the game drive was rendered even more probable. 



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Fig. 7. 



We shall illustrate the points. There are seven or eight groups on the 

 bluffs adjoining Prairie du Chien extending along the road from Prairie du 

 Chien to Batavia. In all these groups the swallow is most prominent. 

 In one group, which was composed in part of long mounds, round mounds 

 and effigies, the swallow was associated with the buffalo. (Map No. 2). In 

 another group i t is associated with two effigies of bears. (Map 2, No. 5. In a 

 third, situated near the village of Batavia, it is isolated, and yet other effigies 



Map 2. 



may have been at one time near it. The groups were all situated on a 

 ridge, but at points where the ridge was the narrowest, and where the im- 

 pression was that the ' different kinds of game made their way across the 

 ridge from the Mississippi river to the Kickapoo. In passing down to the val- 



